Newcastle United star Bruno Guimaraes landed himself in hot water after swearing during a live television broadcast, despite being warned against doing so by presenter duo Ant and Dec. The Brazilian was front and centre of the Magpies’ celebrations during their Carabao Cup bus parade through the city centre, with 150,000 fans joining their heroes on the streets of Tyneside. But their iconic midfielder made a slip-up on the stage just when BBC News tuned in, forcing the British broadcaster to apologise for his foul language.
Ant – full name Anthony McPartlane – pleaded with him not to swear, telling him: “Bruno, you can have the mic as long as you cut the swearing!” Guimaraes then proceeded to sing: “Championes, championes ole, ole, ole!” But he couldn’t keep it clean for much longer, uttering the phrase “f***ing legends” later on when he revealed his pre-match team talk to the presenter on stage
Asked what he told the players as captain before the final, Guimaraes gave some insight to his speech. However, it was unfortunately not as clean as McPartlane might have hoped. Addressing his inspiring speech in the dressing room, he said: “Well, I said to them ‘today, we go to the pitch as players and leave there as f***ing legends!'”
The £33million man ignored the warning a second time when he belted out his best rendition of the popular Sandro Tonali song, which is often heard at St James’ Park and contains profanity in the final line as an insult to their fierce North East rivals Sunderland. He sang: “Sandro Tonali, Sandro Tonali, he eats spaghetti, he drinks [Birra] Moretti, he hates f***ing Sunder-land!”
During a news segment, the BBC apologised to their viewers watching for “any bad language you may have heard, particularly from captain Bruno who is very overwhelmed by all of this”.
However, Ant and Dec certainly saw the funny side as they chuckled along with Guimaraes. Few would have begrudged the 26-year-old’s minor slip-up on stage when celebrating with their huge army of supporters, given that English isn’t his first language.
The celebrations will surely continue long into the night on Saturday as supporters lit pyrotechnics, climbed onto public landmarks and sang together in what will prove to be a memorable day in the club’s history.
But for Guimaraes, he may be in for a grilling from the BBC‘s producers after his inadvertent slip of the tongue.
